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Silicon Valley’s most powerful alliance just got stronger

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-10-14 12:05:54

Eddy Cue deserves a raise. As the executive overseeing Apple’s services division, he’s highly incentivized to protect the tens of billions of dollars a year that Google pays to be the default search engine in Safari. “I’ve lost a lot of sleep thinking about it,” he said from the witness stand during Google’s antitrust trial earlier this year. Luckily for Cue, his court testimony appears to have had a significant impact on Judge Amit Mehta, who ruled this week that Google’s default payments to

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OpenAI reorganizes research team behind ChatGPT’s personality

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-10-14 12:19:12

OpenAI is reorganizing its Model Behavior team, a small but influential group of researchers who shape how the company’s AI models interact with people, TechCrunch has learned. In an August memo to staff seen by TechCrunch, OpenAI’s chief research officer Mark Chen said the Model Behavior team — which consists of roughly 14 researchers — would be joining the Post Training team, a larger research group responsible for improving the company’s AI models after their initial pre-training. As part o

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Attention Writers: Anthropic Might Owe You $3000 (or More!) If It Was Trained Using Your Work

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-14 15:10:39

Writing is a wonderful profession... in writers' dreams! In reality, it's a grind that's comically unprofitable for the vast majority, to say nothing of the tortured ennui that comes with having to deal with actually writing, or the thought of actually writing, or the thought of what you aren't right now actually writing. And the economics are more harrowing than ever, as the once halfway-decent living one could make from publishing a book is now going the way of the dinosaur as people read less

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DeepSeek may be about to shake up the AI world again - what we know

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2025-10-14 15:21:15

picture alliance / Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways DeepSeek will reportedly launch an agent by the end of this year. Agents have become a focal point in the ongoing AI race. The company's debut was a turning point in the global AI race. DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup that sent shockwaves throughout Silicon Valley earlier this year with its sudden ascent onto the global tech scene, is reportedly gearing up to launch its most powerfu

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Should we revisit Extreme Programming in the age of AI?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 15:38:50

The pace of software output has never been faster. AI tooling and decades of platform innovation have dramatically lowered the barrier to code creation. With just a few prompts or API calls, it is now possible to generate entire products, features, infrastructure, and functionality in hours rather than weeks. And yet, despite all this acceleration, delivery outcomes remain stubbornly poor. Too many initiatives underdeliver, budgets continue to overrun, and users are left underserved. If cheaper

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What Are AI Hallucinations? Why Chatbots Make Things Up, and What You Need to Know

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 15:15:00

If you've used ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Grok, Claude, Perplexity or any other generative AI tool, you've probably seen them make things up with complete confidence. This is called an AI hallucination -- although one research paper suggests we call it BS instead -- and it's an inherent flaw that should give us all pause when using AI. Hallucinations happen when AI models generate information that looks plausible but is false, misleading or entirely fabricated. It can be as small as a wrong date i

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This Laptop Handles AI Like a Pro -- Without the Premium Price Tag

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 15:31:00

CNET's key takeaways Laptop prices are on the rise -- and the more they increase, the better Acer's Aspire 14 AI looks. The Acer Aspire 14 AI is available for $500 at Costco $628 at Amazon The Intel Lunar Lake CPU offers good performance for the price and long battery life. The display and design won't wow you. When I reviewed it in April, it cost $700 at Costco and was the cheapest Copilot Plus PC I had reviewed. Fast-forward two months, and a Labor Day deal has brought that price down to

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The Biden-Era Plan to Pay Travelers for Airline-Caused Delays Is Dead

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 15:39:00

For a brief moment, it looked like US travelers might finally get automatic cash when an airline's own problems wrecked their plans. The Department of Transportation, under former President Joe Biden, drafted a rule requiring carriers to pay passengers at least $200 and up to $775 for the longest holdups. The compensation would cover meals, hotels, ground transport and rebooking when disruptions were within the airline's control. But no longer. On Sept. 5, the Trump administration's DOT offici

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FTC commissioner questions status of Snap AI chatbot complaint: 'People deserve answers'

cnbc.com Jonathan Vanian 2025-10-14 20:50:16

U.S. Federal Trade Commission Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter raised questions on Friday about the status of an artificial intelligence chatbot complaint against Snap that the agency referred to the Department of Justice earlier this year. In January, the FTC announced that it would refer a non-public complaint regarding allegations that Snap's My AI chatbot posed potential "risks and harms" to young users and said it would refer the suit to the DOJ "in the public interest." "We don't know what

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Anti-AI Activist on Day Three of Hunger Strike Outside Anthropic's Headquarters

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-14 17:38:48

AI fever might have an iron grip on Fortune 500 CEOs, Wall Street traders, and government officials, but there are still some out their immune to the tech industry's charms. For evidence, look no further than activist and organizer Guido Reichstadter, who's currently running on day three of a hunger strike on the front steps of the headquarters of the AI giant Anthropic. In a statement posted to LessWrong — a forum kickstarted in 2009 by AI critic Eliezer Yudkowsky — Reichstadter explained tha

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Anthropic Agrees to $1.5 Billion Settlement for Downloading Pirated Books to Train AI

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-10-14 20:10:00

Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by authors and publishers over its use of millions of copyrighted books to train the models for its AI chatbot Claude, according to a legal filing posted online. A federal judge found in June that Anthropic’s use of 7 million pirated books was protected under fair use but that holding the digital works in a “central library” violated copyright law. The judge ruled that executives at the company knew they were downloading pirat

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Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5 billion to settle authors' copyright lawsuit

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-10-15 00:01:05

Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a class action lawsuit with a group of authors, who claimed the artificial intelligence startup had illegally accessed their books. The company will pay roughly $3,000 per book plus interest, and agreed to destroy the datasets containing the allegedly pirated material, according to a filing on Friday. The lawsuit against Anthropic has been closely watched by AI startups and media companies that have been trying to determine what copyr

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Rearchitecting GitHub Pages (2015)

news.ycombinator.com Hailey Somerville 2025-10-11 18:21:12

GitHub Pages, our static site hosting service, has always had a very simple architecture. From launch up until around the beginning of 2015, the entire service ran on a single pair of machines (in active/standby configuration) with all user data stored across 8 DRBD backed partitions. Every 30 minutes, a cron job would run generating an nginx map file mapping hostnames to on-disk paths. There were a few problems with this approach: new Pages sites did not appear until the map was regenerated (p

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OpenAI Spends $10 Billion to Get Into the Chip Business

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-15 00:40:31

OpenAI would like to stop being so reliant on Nvidia to handle its processing needs. To address that, the artificial intelligence startup is reportedly teaming up with Broadcom to develop its own chips, set to be available starting next year, according to the Financial Times. The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI’s deal with the US-based semiconductor firm will see the two work together to create custom artificial intelligence chips, which will be used internally by OpenAI to train and ru

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Anthropic Will Pay $1.5 Billion to Authors in Landmark AI Piracy Lawsuit

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-14 23:53:00

Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of authors alleging that the AI company illegally pirated their copyrighted books to use in training its Claude AI models. The settlement was announced Aug. 29, as the parties in the lawsuit filed a motion with the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals indicating they had reached an agreement. "This landmark settlement far surpasses any other known copyright recovery. It is the first of its kind in the AI era," Justin Nelson, lawy

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“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-15 00:26:03

Authors revealed today that Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion and destroy all copies of the books the AI company pirated to train its artificial intelligence models. In a press release provided to Ars, the authors confirmed that the settlement is "believed to be the largest publicly reported recovery in the history of US copyright litigation." Covering 500,000 works that Anthropic pirated for AI training, if a court approves the settlement, each author will receive $3,000 per work that Anthr

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Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in landmark AI settlement

theverge.com Hayden Field 2025-10-15 00:29:58

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. In what’s potentially the first major payout to creatives whose work was used to train AI systems, Anthropic has reached an agreement to pay “at least” a staggering $1.5 billion, plus interest, to authors to settle its class-action lawsuit.

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Screw the money — Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement sucks for writers

techcrunch.com Amanda Silberling 2025-10-15 00:59:21

Around half a million writers will be eligible for a payday of at least $3,000, thanks to a historic $1.5 billion settlement in a class action lawsuit that a group of authors brought against Anthropic. This landmark settlement marks the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright law, but this isn’t a victory for authors — it’s yet another win for tech companies. Tech giants are racing to amass as much written material as possible to train their LLMs, which power groundbreaking AI chat pro

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Apple’s big India push is paying off in billions

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-15 04:29:48

For the last few months, there’s been no lack of news involving Apple and India, from retail to production and everything in between. Now, according to Bloomberg, Tim Cook’s newest bet is starting to pay off. Here are the details. A surge years in the making According to Bloomberg’s sources, Apple saw a 13% bump in revenue from India in the 12 months ending in March, thanks in part to its recent retail expansion in the country. Apple has been aggressively increasing its retail footprint in th

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Anthropic will pay a record-breaking $1.5 billion to settle copyright lawsuit with authors

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-15 04:28:00

Anthropic will pay a record-breaking $1.5 billion to settle a class action lawsuit lawsuit brought by authors and publishers. The settlement is the largest-ever payout for a copyright case in the United States. The AI company behind the Claude chatbot reached a settlement in the case last week, but terms of the agreement weren't disclosed at the time. Now, The New York Times reports that the 500,000 authors involved in the case will get $3,000 per work. The case has been closely watched as top

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I got to see Eufy's stair climbing robot at IFA (and more new Anker products)

zdnet.com Maria Diaz 2025-10-15 04:32:47

Maria Diaz/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. From pet robots to way more robot mowers than the world needs, IFA features some of the coolest tech we'll see all year. Companies use the event to showcase new products and the latest innovations they're working on, and Anker delivered some exciting updates. Also: The coolest gadgets I've seen at IFA 2025 (including ones you can actually buy) Marswalker: A stair-climbing robot Maria Diaz/ZDNET Part of the appeal of e

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Fantastic Pretraining Optimizers and Where to Find Them

news.ycombinator.com Wen 2025-10-15 03:15:42

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Prehistoric Skull Found Fused to Cave Wall May Have Belonged to Mysterious Ancient Hominid

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-10-15 04:56:20

In 1960, a villager found something terrifyingly creepy in Greece’s Petralona cave—a humanoid cranium with a protrusion on its forehead, fused to the cave wall. Since then, researchers have been trying to date the strange specimen and understand how it got there, but these efforts so far have yielded only a frustratingly broad age range of between around 170,000 and 700,000 years. The skull’s ambiguous stratigraphic position is also less than helpful. So a team of researchers took a slightly di

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OpenAI Wants You to Get a Certificate in ChatGPT and Find Your Next Job

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-15 02:52:46

It's not quite getting a college degree in ChatGPT, but it's close. OpenAI said this week it is launching an AI-powered jobs platform and a new certification program offered through its OpenAI Academy. The OpenAI Jobs Platform, expected to launch in 2026, will use AI to connect candidates with employers. The company says the system is designed to better align worker skills with business needs, potentially putting it in direct competition with Microsoft-owned LinkedIn. Alongside the hiring plat

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EU Fines Google $3.45B for Giving Its Ad Tech Preferential Treatment

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-15 02:53:00

Google faces a $3.45 billion fine from the European Union for engaging in anticompetitive advertising technology practices, the European Commission said Friday. The fine stems from a complaint by the European Publishers Council alleging Google gave preference to its own online ad display services, hurting competitors and online publishers. The European Commission wants Google to stop these self-preferential practices and to cease its conflicts of interest. The Commission says it'll give Google,

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This Portable Projector Turned My Campsite Into a Movie Night

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-15 03:32:00

The Anker Nebula Mars 3 Air is currently available for $470 on Amazon, which is 22% off its regular price of $599.99. The price is likely to go back up soon, so this might be your last chance to grab this portable projector at a discount. CNET's key takeaways Anker's Nebula Mars 3 Air is a compact portable projector that costs $599 (but is currently on sale for $470 Despite its size, it delivers a bright picture and loud audio for a portable projector. It can even double as a Bluetooth speake

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Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2025-10-15 04:14:28

Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of book authors alleging copyright infringement, an estimated $3,000 per work. In a court motion on Friday, the plaintiffs emphasized that the terms of the settlement are “critical victories” and that going to trial would have been an “enormous” risk. This is the first class action settlement centered on AI and copyright in the United States, and the outcome may shape how regulators and creative industries

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Showrunner wants to use generative AI to recreate lost footage from an Orson Welles classic

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-10-15 04:00:28

is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Showrunner — the startup that wants to “revolutionize” the entertainment industry by charging people to prompt up AI-generated videos featuring copyrighted IP — is working on a new project to restore an Orson Welles classic. On Friday, Showrunner announced that it has designed a new generative AI model that is meant to help recreate

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Google Gemini dubbed ‘high risk’ for kids and teens in new safety assessment

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-10-15 04:09:12

Common Sense Media, a kids-safety-focused nonprofit offering ratings and reviews of media and technology, released its risk assessment of Google’s Gemini AI products on Friday. While the organization found that Google’s AI clearly told kids it was a computer, not a friend — something that’s associated with helping drive delusional thinking and psychosis in emotionally vulnerable individuals — it did suggest that there was room for improvement across several other fronts. Notably, Common Sense s

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Attorneys general warn OpenAI ‘harm to children will not be tolerated’

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-10-15 04:21:45

California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings met with and sent an open letter to OpenAI to express their concerns over the safety of ChatGPT, particularly for children and teens. The warning comes a week after Bonta and 44 other attorneys general sent a letter to 12 of the top AI companies, following reports of sexually inappropriate interactions between AI chatbots and children. “Since the issuance of that letter, we learned of the heartbreaking death by

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Silicon Valley’s most powerful alliance just got stronger

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DeepSeek may be about to shake up the AI world again - what we know

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Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5 billion to settle authors' copyright lawsuit

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“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion

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This Portable Projector Turned My Campsite Into a Movie Night

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Showrunner wants to use generative AI to recreate lost footage from an Orson Welles classic

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